GOP-controlled House subcommittees have voted to cut or limit funding to universities, community colleges and K-12 schools if contracts ratified before March 28 don’t have minimum savings.

Some Republicans say long contracts at Wayne State, the University of Michigan and elsewhere fly in the face of right to work. Democrats say the criticism is hypocritical because the GOP argued the right-to-work law was about worker freedom, and employees and employers should be able to freely negotiate contracts.